Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:09:20 -0800
You can view the complete line scores on the ARRL web site: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ ARRL members have access to the interactive database that lets you search, sort, extract to Excel for
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:28:50 -0700
Normally, I'd operate the ARRL June VHF QSO Party from a multi-limited here in STX, but this year I will be in the Boston area during the weekend of the contest visiting family. My father-in-law has
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:56:20 -0700
Mike, HamIM is basically calling CQ on 2M FM/AX.25. Since it is an FM transmission on a vertically-polarized antenna, it suffers from many of the same drawbacks that use an FM voice transmitter to ca
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:49 -0700
I am completely confused by the CQ World Wide VHF Contest's web site as tot what my Cabrillo headers should look like for a single-band six meter high power entry. The first line begins with START-OF
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:43 -0700
Actually, the original inquiry involved the FT-726R, not the FT-736R, and the answer is no - there was no 222 MHz module for the FT-726R. The stock radio was a two meter rig with three optional modul
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:41:04 -0700
With regards to #3, the ability to display the transverter frequency rather than the IF frequency, is a radio-specific feature. Some support it, some do not. I took a quick glance through the IC-756
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:05:14 -0800
I agree with your last statement, but I've never understood why someone cares about keeping their logs secret. Would baseball be the same if all that was ever published were the final scores and nobo
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:35:51 -0800
It would just change the strategy so that a pack of four rover vehicles would rack up the points of one vehicle and not care about the score of the other three. Maybe those other three vehicles don't
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:16:23 -0700
I haven't commented on this yet, so here goes. FWIW, I am in the West Gulf Division and try to operate at least one or two VHF contests a year (as a guest op or multiop), with a particular interest i
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:20:39 -0700
I think Marshall's concept of "assistance" is at odds with how that term is normally used in HF contesting. In HF contesting, assistance has traditional referred to the passive use of a spotting netw
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:10:40 -0700
There are already categories in the ARRL VHF contests that can use assistance in the traditional sense of the term - the two multi-operator categories. There are HF contests without single-op assiste
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:41:25 -0700
I appreciate the fact that Gene has decades of active operating experience in VHF/UHF DXing and contesting and writes an interesting, thought-provoking, discussion-provoking column. The only effectiv
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:10:37 -0700
I wonder if it would be possible to have the log checking score the log in every possible four-band combination and use the highest score and band combination. You could submit a six-band log and hav
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 08:32:37 -0700
As a student at the University of Texas, we were once operating the ARRL November Sweepstakes and successfully got a pizza delivery guy to bring us pizza at the shack. The directions were something l
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:26:22 -0700
This is not true. The members of the PSC and VUAC are among the most active amateur radio operators. They tend to be on the air a lot. They have years of experience. I'm sure they get feedback all th
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:35:03 -0700
The ARRL is run as a representative democracy. Members elect their Division Directors, and the Division Directors on the PSC are the ones making the rule change decisions. if you don't like the decis
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:04:08 -0700
Chet, Gene W3ZZ had a good summary of this in one of his World Above 50 MHz columns in QST (which I have been trying to find through the ARRL's periodical search tool and I'm turning up blanks). Some
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:19:53 -0700
All contest results from 1997 to the present are online. Extended web reports and the interactive line score databases are avaiable to ARRL members only, but the QST result articles for that time per
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:12:14 -0700
Ted, if you have an iPhone, there's at least one free app that uses the device's built-in GPS (the one I use is called hamLocator, there are probably others) to give you a constantly updating Maidenh
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:32:44 -0800
There are a few misconceptions in this email. Stations can be spotted no matter what category they are in. An unassisted single operator has no control over how often they are spotted by other statio